Chocolate Tom Yum

I’ve recently been running down my larder partly due to negligence but also in an attempt to increase the turnover of a few ingredients I bought in the wake of the Delia cheat craze. Today there was frozen spinach and beans, king prawns and lime leaves in the freezer. I added these to a litre of chicken stock and then some chilli sauce made earlier, tamarind for sharpness and dark chocolate to go with the extra dried chilli and “cooks cheats” shallots ginger & coriander, fish sauce and pressure cook for 3 minutes, add some noodles and coconut, bringing me terrifyingly close by accident to one “official” recipe: